How To Install rsyslog-elasticsearch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch
on CentOS 7.
What is rsyslog-elasticsearch
This module provides the capability for rsyslog to feed logs directly into Elasticsearch.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rsyslog-elasticsearch
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rsyslog-elasticsearch.
Install rsyslog-elasticsearch on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rsyslog-elasticsearch
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch
Install rsyslog-elasticsearch on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install rsyslog-elasticsearch
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rsyslog-elasticsearch
How To Uninstall rsyslog-elasticsearch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the rsyslog-elasticsearch
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rsyslog-elasticsearch
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rsyslog-elasticsearch
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.